Wireless networking is just what it sounds like — a way of creating networks without any wires! If this sounds exciting to you, then read on.
With a wireless network, you can create radio connections between computers that let them communicate and connect to the Internet without you having to go to all the trouble of connecting them with wires. The computers don’t even need to have a clear path for the signal, as the wireless signal can go through walls and between floors easily.
Where Did It Come From?
The story of wireless networking is a rather strange one. It is basically an application of a technology called frequency hopping which was, believe it or not, invented by the actress Hedy Lamarr and a musician named George Antheil, back in the 1940s. Seriously, do a web search — I promise I’m not pulling your leg here.
They received a patent for their invention, which was intended to help in the war effort. Hedy was Jewish, but had been made to hide it and socialise with Hitler as a young woman — she had to drug her husband and run away to London to escape her native Austria. The importance of what they’d done, however, wasn’t recognised until many years later.
The U.S. military adopted the technique in the ’60s, using it during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Hedy never saw any money from it as the patent had expired (don’t worry, she was a film star!), but she was given a Pioneer Award by the Electronic Frontier Foundation in 1997, three years before her death.
Wireless at Home.
When most people talk about wireless networks, they are talking about wireless LANs (local area networks). A local area network doesn’t mean that it covers your whole neighbourhood — the ‘local area’ in question can be only one building, such as your house. So if you want wireless networking in your home, you want a wireless LAN.
Once people have wireless in their home, they always seem to act as if there’s been an absolute miracle. After years of drilling holes in the walls and running wires all over the place, suddenly seeing them gone is really amazing.
The Myths.
Wireless networking is expensive. Well, wireless networking used to be expensive when it was new, but now the prices have come way down thanks to competition and mass production. There are hundreds of manufacturers of wireless equipment, with something for every budget. Your costs will depend on how many computers you want to connect and how far apart they are, but a typical family should still be able to do it for less than $100 overall. If you’re willing to leave one of the computers on whenever you’re using the other one, you could do it for as little as $20! Best of all, once you’ve spend the money, there’s nothing more to pay after that.
Wireless networking is hard. Again, this myth is a holdover from the early days of wireless. It used to be very difficult, with you needing to fiddle endlessly with the configuration on each computer just to get the simplest things to work. Now, though, Windows supports wireless out of the box, and setting it up is easier than ever. You can usually plug in what you’ve bought, put the CD in the computer and then sit back and watch it all work perfectly!
Wireless networking is insecure. You might think it’s dangerous to have all your personal data floating around in the air for anyone to read. Well, if you want, it’s dead easy to enable encryption for your wireless signals. It’s already difficult for outsiders to intercept wireless signals at all, and they certainly won’t be able to decode them as well.
Not Just at Home.
It was home users that were quickest to adopt wireless technology, willing to pay any amount to finally be free of needing to run wires all over their house. Since then, though, the technology has started to spread to offices, universities, and all sorts of other places.
Chains of coffee shops and cafes have found that their customers will stay for hours if they offer wireless Internet access, and it’s also becoming more common in hotels and airports. This means that once you set up a laptop for wireless, it becomes far more portable than it ever was before.
How Do Wireless Networks Work?
Wireless networks work using radio waves instead of wires to transmit data between computers. That’s the simple version. If you’re curious to know what’s going on in more detail, then it’s all explained in this article.
Ones and Zeros.
I’m sure you know that computers transmit data digitally, using binary: ones and zeros. This is a way of communicating that translates very well to radio waves, since the computer can transmit ones and zeros as different kinds of beep. These beeps are so fast that they’re outside a human’s hearing range — radio waves that you can’t hear are, in fact, all around you all the time. That doesn’t stop a computer from using them, though.
Morse Code.
The way it works is a lot like Morse code. You probably already know that Morse code is a way of representing the alphabet so that it can be transmitted over radio using a dot (short beep) and a dash (long dash). It was used manually for years, and became a great way of getting information from one place to another with the invention of the telegraph. More importantly for this example, though, it is a binary system, just like a computer’s ones and zeros.
You might think of wireless networking, then, as being like Morse code for computers. You plug a combined radio receiver and transmitter in, and the computer is able to send out its equivalent of dots and dashes (bits, in computer-speak) to get your data from one place to another.
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August 21st, 2008
Janet Wilson, CEO of Empowerism, Inc answered this question asked by Doug Gorman, Webmaster and editor at Plug-In Profit Site News. Here’s what Janet had to say…
“Doug, there is only one reason: They quit.
So then the question becomes: Why do they quit? My personal observation is that these 97% display a low tolerance for the kind of obstacles successful entrepreneurs often work through to reach their goals. Sadly, most people are ****ed in by the ridiculous “get rich quick & easy” hype – also known as the lottery mentality, but those of us who have made our dreams come true know that is simply a fantasy. Even when we launched our RSVP and MVP programs, I made it clear that their success depended upon their commitment to continue growing their Empowerism business.
Building an Internet business often requires one to traverse rocky, frustrating, lonely roads, and you won’t see any hyped-up ads or websites exposing that fact. But, the payout - the experience of succeeding at something you wanted so badly you couldn’t sleep at night from thinking about it - is absolutely, positively worth every cut and scrape along the way. Success is primarily a matter of “what is your reason WHY and what are you willing to do for it?”
When someone complains that Empowerism (or any other worthwhile business) “doesn’t work” my response is always, “Empowerism is only the vehicle and it works for anyone who takes driving it seriously. The vehicle cannot control how you drive it, or even IF you drive it. But when you decide to put yourself firmly in the driver’s seat, take the wheel, and drive until you reach your destination, Empowerism is a reliable, sound vehicle. If Empowerism “doesn’t work” then we’ll have to come up with another explanation for the $100,000+ in commissions we send out each month!”
Empowerism, also publisher of Excellence Magazine, is the ideal stepping stone, composed of the tools, training, and motivation, that every person can and should use on the path to fulfilling their entrepreneurial dreams and goals.
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May 13th, 2008
TNX.net is an ad network, where you can sell text link ads on individual web pages. The ads are matched using categorical targeting and any link can be removed by either the buyer or the seller. This gives users of TNX.net an unrivaled control over the ads they buy or sell.
Read the rest: TNX.net Review
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March 20th, 2008
I have been a professional Ferrari Finder for over 10 years. I basically act as an agent between a buyer looking to buy a used ferrari and a seller who is looking (or not occasionally) to sell a ferrari. As the cars are worth so much it makes it worth while for a customer to use me to facilitate the purchase. In example I was asked to find a Ferrari Enzo last week, a phenominally hard to find car that had me climbing walls calling all sorts of numbers that should have ferrari’s for sale. In the end I managed it though, much to my favour as I got a good fee - almost 5% of the total cars worth, which was a lot I can tell you!
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February 19th, 2008
This week, my mother came at home to stay here for 2 months.
She has 2 months of holydays. Yeap, she’s gonna spend that time at home.
Hurra. But, there is also a downside:
What she doesn’t know yet is that I am making my money on the internet.
She is cool and sleeps all the day lond, at least the first 2 days. My problem is,
she really is very authoritative and directive. And she wants me to do this and
that and this and that again… Oh. She’s at home because my sister is marrying on
saturday july 21th… And that’s very time consuming. We have to go left and right
having dinner or lunch all together, the family doesn’t stop coming, requesting
us to meet and have lunch again or dinner etc…
Hey! But what about my Internet Business? I cannot afford spending time left
and right will all those time consuming things! The marriage is great, tit’s my sister’s.
Don’t get me wrong. I’m happy for her. But, it brings such a lot of dutys that let
me very little time to focus on my business building tasks. I mean daily tasks
as social bookmarking, research, posting new content, building links, online
socializing etc. All the building process stuff.
Well. So can my mother break my business? I think it’s a matter of adaptation
and organisation, I hope I will find the right balance beetwen everything. I have
2 months left before september, that day I will be returning to the faculty again,
and those 2 months I planned to build my Biz like crazy, but I didn’t put the family
in the equation. So, I ‘ve got to revise my strategy but I think I’ll get there. So here
the sacrifice and dedication thing is stronger than ever. Good luck to you all who know
how such situation is Grrrrr… difficult to deal with.
My business that I am building right now is www.blogadollar.com.
On Blogadollar.com, I’m telling the world how I make REAL money on the Internet.
Cheers.
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July 16th, 2007
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July 10th, 2007
Well, that got your attention. It serves to show that curiosity can be a powerful tool to use.
When you are advertising a business opportunity, or a product, don’t simply follow the crown all of the time. If there are hundred of business opportunity adverts in your local newspaper, all boasting
“Earn £400 - £600 Per Month In Your Spare Time”
Try something different. Try to peak their curiosity or hit a hot spot.
“Discover How To Earn A Full Time Wage For a Part Time Job”
“How To Earn More Part Time Than Your Boss Earns Full Time”
“How To Buy A New Car Without Getting A Loan”
“How To Take A Dream Holiday Without Getting A Loan”
You get the message I hope. These Car and Holiday ads can go in the motoring and holidays sections of the classifieds. They don’t need to compete with the multitude of business opportunity ads. The “Earn More” ads might still be placed in the biz opp sections, but they are different. They will stand out from the crowd.
That’s all folks. Just try to be a little different.
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July 4th, 2007
If you assign the letters A - Z with numbers as percentages from 1 - 26 in line with their positions in the alphabet, the resulting totals for various words is interestingly similar to some of the cornerstones of a successful network marketing or MLM business.
KNOWLEDGE = 96% - Knowledge is vitally important to any business, but knowledge alone is useless.
HARDWORK = 98% - You can get results if you are prepared to work hard hard in life, but again, hard work alone will not lead to total success.
ATTITUTE = 100%. If you have the right attitute, the rest will fall in to place, because you will have the right attitude to make sure of it, and of course you will build a successful business and life for yourself.
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June 29th, 2007